There's a big log at the east end of the lower meadow that's absolutely blanketed in lichen and mosses. The day my grandfather died, I spent the better part of an hour with this log, poring over its every nook and cranny, finding miniature gardens at every turn.

After the funeral, on Saturday the 8th, I attended a Fungi Bioblitz at Roy's Redwoods organized by One Tam. A bioblitz is an event where a group of people look for specific organisms in a specific place over a short period of time. A couple of dozen volunteers converged in the morning for a short introductory briefing, and then we split up into groups to cover different areas of Roy's Redwoods and the adjacent French Ranch Open Space Preserves. At the end of the bioblitz, we were encouraged to upload our observations to iNaturalist.

Our group covered the southern half of Roy's Redwoods Loop Trail, from the trailhead south and east, and then back north to Meadow Trail, where we headed west back to the trailhead. I served as our group's guide/person-who-knows-something-about-mushrooms, so I didn't take many photos. The mold-eaten bolete above was the first mushroom we spotted on the trail.